“Had to smoke those cigars. Damn.”
It probably wasn’t the cigars. You don’t inhale cigar smoke. He was also a cigarette smoker years before.
when you’re in a room- you inhale a lot of the smoke- as it lingers in the air around you- but yeah, it was likely mostly the ciggs that caused it-
True. You don't inhale cigar smoke as a part of smoking the cigar but you do inhale as you breath and if the air is permeated with cigar smoke, it's going to get into your lungs. All smokers create second-hand smoke situations for others as well as for themselves.
Yeah. I’ve done both. Stopped over 20 years ago for cigars and 44 years ago with cigarettes. But you always inhale some cigar smoke and it adds up.
A friend got cancer of the throat from human papilloma virus. He smoked cigars for a few decades after quitting cigarettes. Lots of people have the virus and your body can fight it. He obviously had his mouth where it wasn’t supposed to be (think Michael Douglas). It took constant cigar smoke to weaken him enough for the cancer to take hold. He survived but it wasn’t lung cancer.
Didn't Rush quit cigarettes over a decade ago? Seems like he's been describing his formerly nicotine stained hands for a number of years.
Perhaps it was the cigars that pushed his lung cells over the edge.
It's genetics......some smokers die of cancer, others don't. Some never smokers die of lung cancer and others don't.........
I think it's best to keep tobacco usage out of this tragedy..........